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Originally Posted by pizzalot
Genocide comes from the word Genos (which means family,tribe or race) + Cide (which is termination or killing). So you must be able to clearly define who the affected party is if you want us to proceed further. "Geno" has an element of genetics and bilogical origin to it. What it does not have is "religion", "belief", "culture","goodness" etc which the beginning of this thread was all about. You can call the killing based on religion with any other word, but not Genocide.
Dear Pizzalot
Below is the UNO definition of genocide, adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948; and it does include religious group. I am afraid, your understanding of genocide seems to be flawed and erroneous.
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Source:
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html